What are your opinions on Egypt? Historically vs Currently. Haven't

>>3042236
Got BTFO several times by Israel in 20th century. Usually some sort of military dictatorship is always in power, right now it's al Sisi after he dealt with MB three years ago.

>>3042236
desu until something is done it will be hampered by several problems into the distant future, namely way too many fucking people ever provide enough well-paying jobs in an economy that afaik relies heavily on tourism. second they have a huge braindrain. third they have a huge ass military lobby that controls vast parts of the economy and i conjecture probably sucks up a lot of money. fourth huge corruption and unequal distribution of income

>>3042271
You could say they're keeping their ways of life alive.

>>3042236
Is it true that Egypt was a majority Shia country at one point?

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Hol up.

>>3042479
Yes until Saladin massacred them back to Sunni
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatimid_Caliphate

Any egyptians here? I wonder if modern egyptians, despite being muslim consider themselves in some sense a continuation of anciant egypt..
Like, what do they thnk about the pyramids for example? etc..

>>3043164
To my knowledge the secular nationalists like to play up ancient history (especially for tourist money) while the Islamists don't.